I'm glad you were able to get your calc up and running again, and that everything is ok. I'd also like to take a moment to say welcome here! =) This place is plenty active, so there are always new and interesting projects popping up. =)

It's not completely impossible, but it would be ridiculously slow... And I mean really, really slow. It would be unplayable. You can't just access flash however you want to - there's a reason for why garbage collects exist, and there's a reason for why they take so long time.

Yeah I know about about the speed of ROM and about the speed of Garbage collecting.
That's why I thought about using reserved free space inside the app.
But I was just suggesting a "solution", as I said, I'm a noob at ASM.

The reserved free space inside the app behaves just like the rest of ROM does (although TI-OS won't touch it), so it'll still be very slow.

Hey guys,
I'm new at putting games on calculators and all that things.

And i would like to play pokemon ( or other games ) in my Calculator (ti 84 plus).
I would like to someone explain me how to put tiboy and pokemon on my calculator ( already have ti connect)

Have you read the TI-Boy readme? The first important thing to do is to check if your calculator has all of the extra RAM.

i read it all already

... and what questions do you have about it?  the README is actually quite complete and should answer most questions -- if you have a specific question however, explain it in decent detail so we can help.  If you're asking for a tutorial on how to actually put games on, then you obviously didn't read the readme.

As I don't understand the most part of assembly (I understand the basic and the basics of ASM but nothing after ld a,3), I only have impossible ideas. But if it is possible, it is interesting.
Can't you make a larger app, with free ROM in it that could be accessed as false RAM without garbage collecting ? (who understands ?). I explain myself.
You make an app with empty space in it. It is in ROM, not in RAM (I think, maybe not)
Games that need 32kb of RAM will in fact "archive" sometime in this free space and "unarchive" after. Of course, the game would not be as fast as before but could run on all calcs.
As I said, I think it is impossible.

Unfortunately RAM and flash are totally different -- that's why in a program you use RAM, as in Random Access, as in you can access it all you want. Flash is different in that you can only write to it in one direction, to change bits from 1 to 0. You can't go the other way except by erasing that entire page (changing it all to 1s).

When you unarchive a variable and archive it again, it isn't actually removed from flash and written back in. Unarchiving doesn't do anything to the variable except marking it for deletion -- in other words, all the data is still there (that's how the archive undeleter works). When you re-archive the variable, it's written again, but after the first copy, which is still there. That's why you run out of free archive and have to garbage collect periodically, to get rid of those extra copies that never actually got removed.

Apps are stored in flash as well, but they're always in a fixed place (that's why you can't unarchive apps). That's also why apps can't be modified much, and that's why "unarchiving" and "rearchiving" parts of the app is pretty much impossible, as you said. It would be like having a calculator within your calculator that has 32 or however many kilobytes of archive, which would be possible in theory, as long as you're willing to do a garbage collect something like every five minutes.

Hope that clears some stuff up (sorry for the bad grammar, I was rushed).

Hey guys,
I'm new at putting games on calculators and all that things.

And i would like to play pokemon ( or other games ) in my Calculator (ti 84 plus).
I would like to someone explain me how to put tiboy and pokemon on my calculator ( already have ti connect)

Hi TI-84 Plus, welcome to Omni! As JosJuice suggested, have you read the instructions? If you don't understand a part of it you can ask, but we need to know what you need help with

EDIT: Here's the relevant part of the readme:


After you finish that just drag the app made into TI Connect to load it on your calculator. You don't need to put TI-Boy itself on there.

Er... Why is it written on the first page of this topic that the version 0.1.00 brings the compatibility with newer hardware revision ?

Because the Alpha version released in 2009 didn't support the newer hardware revision at all. Now it is supported for all games with 8KB or less of cartridge RAM (which is most games, but unfortunately excluding the popular Pokemon)